Lil rant about Nick from 8flix (iykyk)
So back in 2022, there was this guy named Nick from 8Flix. He was known for posting actual Netflix scripts from other shows and movies, so people trusted him because that was literally what he did. Then he started posting Stranger Things Season 4 scripts. Not just one, but a whole bunch. Some of them were Byler scenes, and they weren’t written like boring stage directions. They had actual emotion in them. They described how the characters felt and what the tone was supposed to be. Because of that, some fans said they looked like fanfiction, but honestly they felt more like real scripts.What made it weird was how Netflix and the Stranger Things team reacted. At first, they said nothing about the scripts, Then Nick posted the one script where Will recognizes Brenner during the scene where Brenner dies next to Eleven. And the second that one started spreading, the official accounts jumped in on Twitter saying none of the scripts were real and to only trust their script drops. They suddenly cared a lot, even though they ignored everything before that.People got mad at Nick, accusing him of messing with Bylers, but he kept saying the scripts were real and didn’t back down. Then he kind of disappeared and later came back saying weird cryptic stuff. Now that Volume one is out, I kinda think the scripts were real. Will recognizing Brenner could have been a legit spoiler. Maybe Not because Will met Brenner in person, but because he might have recognized him from Henry’s memories, which could easily get fans to figure out Will's powers plot in s5. That’s something the writers definitely wouldn’t want leaking. Another thing is the writing style. The scripts Nick posted had lines like “Will’s mouth was as dry as a California summer” or stuff in the van scene about ripping off the band-aid. They described how Will felt, not just what he did. People said that proved they were fake, but then we saw the Season 5 table read and the official scripts literally do that. They say things like “Will feels stupid” during the Will and Mike scene. They definitely put emotional direction in real scripts.But the “official” scripts the Stranger Things team posted back then looked watered down. They felt like someone just rewatched the finished scene and typed out what happened instead of using the real script. They didn’t have any depth and didn’t feel like something an actor would actually use. The more I think about it, the more it seems like the 8Flix scripts were real. I just remembered this lmao and I went down a loophole remembering all this stuff. Idk, it just seems weird how the writers went about it. No, I will not let go of "his mouth was as dry as a California summer".
